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CREATIVE COMMONS POLAND BEGINS WORK TOWARDS FREE COPYRIGHT TOOLS

Silicon Valley-based NGO continues its wildfire expansion around the 
globe

San Francisco, USA and Berlin, GERMANY -- March 31, 2005 -- Creative 
Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of 
creative work free to share and build upon, announced today that work 
on a localized Polish version of its copyright licenses has begun. 
Creative Commons' copyright licenses, which are available free of 
charge from the group's website (http://creativecommons.org), allow 
authors and artists to mark their works as free to copy or transform 
under certain conditions -- to declare "some rights reserved," in 
contrast to the traditional "all rights reserved" -- thereby enabling 
others to access a growing pool of raw materials without legal 
friction. Poland joins a dozen jurisdictions around the world in the 
process of adapting the Creative Commons licenses to local law; sixteen 
other jurisdictions, from Japan to Brazil to Finland, already offer 
localized versions of Creative Commons licenses today.

In a collaborative effort between the Institute of Civil Law at the 
Jagiellonian University of Krakow and the Polish non-profit 
organization Open Source Culture Foundation (OSCF), Creative Commons 
Poland will adapt the licenses to Polish law. The process is headed by 
Justyna Hofmokl and Alek Tarkowski, with Professor Elzbieta Traple from 
the law faculty of the Jagiellonian University as the project's legal 
lead.

Creative Commons Poland will post their initial drafts on the Creative 
Commons website for public discussion: http://creativecommons.org


About the Open Source Culture Foundation

The Open Source Culture Foundation was created with the goals of 
popularizing artistic activity and culture in Poland, supporting art 
criticism, and encouraging active participation in cultural projects 
and events. The Foundation supports new technical solutions that reduce 
costs of production and distribution of both printed and electronic 
versions of cultural magazines. OSCF also supports the development of 
Open Source software for creating an online environment for cultural 
periodicals.

For more information about the Open Source Culture Foundation, visit 
http://fundacja.czasopism.pl/en/about-us.

About the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian 
University, Krakow

Going back to the very beginnings of the University's existence in the 
14th century, the study of law at the Jagiellonian University has a 
long history. The University's current Faculty of Law and 
Administration is proud to continue in a tradition of important 
contributions to the foundations of modern Poland, with many of its 
senior staff holding key offices in the Polish legislative and 
executive bodies. Kraków is very often called the capital of 
Intellectual Property Law in Poland, due to the fame of its Institute 
of IP Law.

For more information about the University, visit 
http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/.

About Creative Commons

A nonprofit corporation founded in 2001, Creative Commons promotes the 
creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works -- whether owned or 
in the public domain -- by empowering authors and audiences. It is 
sustained by the generous support of the Center for the Public Domain, 
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network 
Fund, and the Hewlett Foundation.

For general information, visit <http://creativecommons.org>.

Contact

Neeru Paharia
Assistant Director, Creative Commons
neeru AT creativecommons.org

Christiane Asschenfeldt
International Coordinator, Creative Commons
christiane AT creativecommons.org

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Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org
+1.415.946.3065 (telephone)
+1.415.336.1433 (mobile)
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